Biography
GOOD KIDS, BAD CITY: A STORY OF RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTION IN AMERICA
In the early 1970s, three African-American men―Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson―were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. The prosecution’s case, which resulted in a...
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ALL DAY: A YEAR OF LOVE AND SURVIVAL TEACHING INCARCERATED KIDS AT RIKERS ISLAND
Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional...
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BLACK LOTUS: A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR RACIAL IDENTITY
A unique and exquisitely wrought story of one multiracial woman’s journey to discover and embrace herself in a family that sought to deny her black heritage, Sil Lai Abrams shares her story in Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity—an...
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BLACK BODIES, WHITE GAZES: THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE IN AMERICA
Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his...
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A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers....
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A SONG FOR YOU: MY LIFE WITH WHITNEY HOUSTON
Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans...
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KILL 'EM AND LEAVE: SEARCHING FOR JAMES BROWN AND THE AMERICAN SOUL
Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown’s rough-and-tumble life, through McBride’s lens, is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. McBride’s travels take him...
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MY LIFE IN SEARCH OF AFRICA
The author, one of the foremost scholars on Africa, fought to legitimize African history for more than 60 years. This book finally uncovers the tumultuous life of this great figure. Through a series of autobiographical essays, Clarke looks back on...
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ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely...
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AFRICAN SAMURAI: THE TRUE STORY OF YASUKE, A LEGENDARY BLACK WARRIOR IN FEUDAL JAPAN
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to...
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BLACK KLANSMAN: A MEMOIR
The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history...
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AMERICA'S MISTRESS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MISS EARTHA KITT
Strait-laced, pre-civil rights America wasn't ready for Eartha Kitt. Waiting for others to be ready was never her style. in America's Mistress John L. Williams captures the person behind the myth in this engaging biography but also race relations in Twentieth-century America....
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CREATE DANGEROUSLY: THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST AT WORK (TONI MORRISON LECTURE)
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create...
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BLACK MAGIC: WHAT BLACK LEADERS LEARNED FROM TRAUMA AND TRIUMPH
A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a...
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AFTERSHOCKS: A MEMOIR
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.A Most-Anticipated Selection by...
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FREE CYNTOIA: MY SEARCH FOR REDEMPTION IN THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM
NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/AutobiographyIn her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug...
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FINDING MY VOICE: MY JOURNEY TO THE WEST WING AND THE PATH FORWARD
Product details
Publisher : Viking; Illustrated edition (April 2, 2019)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0525558136
ISBN-13 : 978-0525558132
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BLACK TITAN: A.G. GASTON AND THE MAKING OF A BLACK AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE (PB) / COMING SOON
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance....
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019 The award-winning biography that restores William Monroe Trotter to his essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and Malcom X in the pantheon of American civil rights...
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LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD
“An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” —EssenceThe inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—explores how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to...
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